Karin AronssonProfessor emeritus
About me
Professor
Section for Child and Youth Studies
Karin Aronsson is a professor emeritus at the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Stockholm University. She has worked in Stockholm from 2008, after many years in Linköping (Child Studies; Tema Barn, Linköping University, 1988-2008). Much of her work concerns social interaction in institutional contexts, such as medical, legal and educational settings, with a focus on detailed analyses of multiparty participation.
Aronsson’s work on social interaction involves detailed analyses of conversations and the dynamics of multiparty interaction, including language socialization practices in classrooms, peer groups, family life, clinical interviews and courtroom settings. One of her research interests concerns ways of rethinking development. Her work on multilingualism in classroom settings focuses on codeswitching, corrections and stylizations, as well as jokes and other changes of footings in peer play and other multiparty contexts.
Another research interest concerns children’s and young people’s art work, visual culture and aesthetic practices. This work also includes micro analyses of children’s and young people’s game play aesthetics and play practices in computer gaming.
Aronsson has been the tutor of seven doctoral theses at Stockholm University and of thirty at Linköping University, and she is on the editorial board of several journals: Applied Linguistics, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, andText & Talk.
Research
Research projects
Witness testimonies in child custody disputes
(financed by Forte, 2010; 2014- -; collaborators Anna Gradin Franzén, Henrik Ingrids & Björn Sjöblom) Aronsson's most recent project concerns witness testimonies in child custody disputes, with a focus on narration and co-narration in a legal context
Everyday lives of working families: Italy, Sweden, and the United States
(financed by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2003 - 2009; collaborators Pål Aarsand, Asta Cekaite, Lucas Gottzén) Some of Aronsson's work draws on video ethnographies of everyday life routines and negotiations in family life (an international collaboration with Elinor Ochs at UCLA and Clotilde Pontecorvo, Rome, and their research associates: Marjorie Goodwin, Tami Kremer-Sadlik, Alessandra Fasulo, Marilena Fatigante, Francesco Arcidiacano and others; funded by Alfred P. Sloan foundation). Multimodal practices and visual culture form important aspects of these analyses. Some of this work concerns requests in family life.
Computer gaming, aesthetic practices and informal learning
Collaborators: Pål Aarsand, Polly Björk-Willén & Björn Sjöblom; financed by the Swedish Research Council, Committee of Educational Science UVK, 2008-2010) as well as action aesthetics in computer gaming in everyday life contexts.
